Of course, devices like Google Glass are sure to have downsides as well. Hopefully not too many conversations fall dead as one party becomes immersed in highly targeted information overlaid onto their view of the other person. Surely losing your friend’s eye contact halfway through a sentence would be emasulating and socially isolating in its own way.

I’m as excited as the next girl about what Google Glass can make possible. But you’re never going to convince me that a wearable piece of technology that’s always in view and serves all kinds of urgent information in a blink is going to restore any part of our pre-smartphone social lives.

That’s not optimism. It’s fantasy.

I’m looking forward to Glass, but I’m not looking forward to going stealth as I compete with it for friends’ attention.